The Festival and the producers’ associations EPE/APV and IBAIA present the Zinemira Award to the trajectory of an outstanding Basque film personality.

ZINEMIRA AWARDJulia Juaniz

The Basque Film and ETB Gala, to take place on Tuesday, September 26, at the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, will be the setting for screening of the film Elkarrekin-Together and presentation of the Zinemira Award. This year’s honorary accolade, given by the San Sebastian Festival and the EPE/AVE and IBAIA producers associations to an outstanding personality from the world of Basque film, received in previous years by Imanol Uribe (2009), Álex Angulo (2010), Elías Querejeta (2011), Michel Gaztambide (2012) Juanba Berasategi (2013), Pedro Olea (2014), Karmele Soler (2015) and Ramón Barea (2016), will acknowledge the career of the film editor Julia Juaniz.

Her filmography also includes works as a short filmmaker, such as Traintime (1991), winner of the Basque Film Grand Prix at the Bilbao Film Festival; El vuelo de Dora Salazar about the artist from Altsasua (2011); El grito de Guernica (2012); Mankind (2012), chosen for the Lars von Trier project Gesamt; and El lenguaje de los objetos (2013), about the artist Marijose Recalde.

She has received two Goya nominations for Best Editing, one for Goya en Burdeos (Goya in Bordeaux, 2006) and the other for Iberia (2005), also having won Spain’s Círculo de Críticos Cinematográficos Award for El cielo gira (2004).